Jon Axelrod
Jon is a founding shareholder in Beins, Axelrod & Keating, P.C. After almost three years in the Appellate Court Branch of the National Labor Relations Board litigating in the United States Courts of Appeals, Jon became Assistant General Counsel of the Eastern Conference of Teamsters, where he represented Local Unions in litigation and negotiation with employers. After six years with the Eastern Conference, he and Hugh Beins founded what has become Beins, Axelrod & Keating, P.C.
Jon has practiced traditional labor law since 1974. As a lawyer representing private and public sector unions, Jon has litigated in numerous federal and state judicial and administrative proceedings. He argued in the Supreme Court of the United States (Plumbers v. Plumbers Local 334, 452 U.S. 615 (1981)). He has represented unions in several hundred arbitration hearings. He has served as principal union negotiator in collective bargaining sessions and has provided back room advice in numerous others.
Jon has published numerous articles and presented papers on a variety of issues involving labor relations. He is the author of the Duty of Fair Representation chapter in LABOR UNION LAW ANDREGULATION, published by the American Bar Association’s Section of Labor and Employment Law and BNA.
Jon has represented Taft-Hartley funds since 1991. As single or co-counsel to Taft-Hartley plans, Jon has drafted plan documents. He has litigated against employers in collection and withdrawal liability cases. He has defended funds in benefit claim cases. He has represented Union-appointed Trustees in trustee deadlock cases.
For eight years, Jon served as the court-approved “class trustee” for a death benefit fund. He continues to serve as an independent fiduciary to several funds.
Jon graduated with an A.B. from Dartmouth College, a J.D. from Columbia University Law School, and an LLM in Labor Law from George Washington University Law School.


Justin Keating
Justin has been a shareholder at Beins, Axelrod & Keating, P.C., since 2007. He graduated from the State University of New York College at Fredonia (BA. 1997) and George Washington University School of Law (2000). He is admitted to practice in New York, the District of Columbia, Virginia, and Maryland.
Justin practices primarily in traditional labor law, collective bargaining, and employee benefits. He has litigated pre-trial through jury trial in several federal courts and administrative agencies under labor statutes, ERISA, and FLSA. He represents unions large and small, has arbitrated well over 100 collective bargaining agreement grievance arbitrations, regularly serves as chief negotiator or negotiating committee counsel in contract negotiations in the private and public sectors, and represents and advises unions in organizing campaigns and related litigation. He also assists union clients with legislative efforts at the state and local level. In the non-union legal world, he has represented plaintiffs in wage cases and consumer rights cases and assisted non-profit organizations with their legal needs.
With recent growth of public sector collective bargaining in Virginia, Justin has been counsel for unions around the Commonwealth in their efforts to build a better workplace for police officers, teachers, and other local government employees.
Justin has been a guest speaker at many bar association conferences and is a founding member and current Board member of the Virginia chapter of the Labor-Employment Relations Association.
From 2013 to 2016, Mr. Keating served as an elected member of the School Board for the City of Alexandria, Virginia. He has coached many youth basketball, baseball, and soccer teams in Alexandria where he lives with his wife Katie Finn and their two teenage sons.
Rod Harrell
Rod joined Beins, Axelrod & Keating as Of Counsel in 2019. He graduated from the United States Air Force Academy (B.S. Space Physics, 1990) and the George Mason University (Scalia Law School, J.D. summa cum laude, 2017), where he served as the Editor-in-Chief of the George Mason Law Review. His law-review-published Comment on the Contract Clause of the Constitution was cited in Professor James W. Ely Jr.’s seminal book on that clause in 2016, and by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit in 2020.
Rod served in the Air Force for 22 years, flying Pacific Theater Airlift as a C-130 Instructor Pilot and then flying sensitive, worldwide, high-altitude reconnaissance missions as a U-2 Pilot. He started flying the Boeing 737 for a major U.S. carrier after leaving active duty in 2000, retired as a Lieutenant Colonel from the Air Force Reserve in 2012, and still flies as a 737 Captain. Rod finished 2nd in his law school class of 150+ while working full time as an airline pilot.
Since affiliating with Beins, Axelrod & Keating, Rod has served as an adjunct professor at the Scalia Law School and lead counsel for an Army veteran before the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims. He is an accredited. He also briefed, argued, and won the eponymous case Harrell v. Freedom Mortgage Corporation before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit. He has been second chair in a federal court jury trial, worked on other collective/class actions on behalf of plaintiffs, and for unions in labor-management relations disputes.
Rod lives with his wife, Andrea Delisi, who is also an attorney, in Washington DC. He is an avid recreational sailor and snow boarder, and, despite growing up a Houston Astros fan, is now a committed Nats fan.
Treyvon Jordan
Treyvon Jordan has been an associate attorney at the Firm since July 2025. A native of South Carolina, he graduated from William & Mary Law School in 2024. After graduating, he spent a year at the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) as their 2024–2025 Fellowship Lawyer.
Treyvon’s career in labor began in 2021 with UNITE HERE Local 23/25, where he worked as a student organizer in Williamsburg, Richmond, and Washington, D.C. While in law school, he led committees with United Campus Workers of Virginia Local 2265 (CWA), focusing on lobbying the Virginia General Assembly to pass laws supporting public sector collective bargaining and affordable childcare. In 2023, he was a Peggy Browning Fellow at the Communications Workers of America.
Prior to law school, Treyvon served as a Field Artillery Officer in the United States Marine Corps. As a veteran, he serves on the Board of Directors for Everyone for Veterans, a nonprofit providing dental care to low-income veterans with limited access to services. Treyvon also volunteers with The Veterans Consortium Pro Bono Program.


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